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Joining Up Joining In- Leicestershire County Council agrees to make care experience a protected characteristic!
The Leicestershire Cares’ Joining Up Joining In (JUJI) project, funded by the Blagrave Trust, is celebrating the County Council’s decision to treat “Care Experience” as a protected characteristic, after their lead member for children and young people met with our peer researchers about this issue. Councillor Taylor brought a motion to the full County Council… Read More
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Care Experienced Students’ Success at University: Support and Encouragement are Crucial.
Young people who have been placed in care are known to have poorer educational outcomes than other young people and are less likely to go to university. Despite the challenges faced by care experienced young people in getting to university, research suggests that when they do make it to university, many succeed in completing their… Read More
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Should Care Experience be a Protected Characteristic?
Introduction As part of the Joining Up Joining In project funded from the Blagrave Trust we conducted a survey in partnership with our care experienced peer researchers. So far on the project, four young people have received training from Learning and Work Institute to become peer researchers and explore the issues that local care experienced… Read More
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Knowledge to Action Magazine – The Summer issue: Adventure
KtoA help us discover inspirational stories and real-life experiences, access advice about current topics and find exciting cultural activities taking place. Find out wha is in this edition…
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Children’s Commissioner for Wales Super Ambassadors programme
Super Ambassadors is a scheme from the Children’s Commissioner for Wales that aims to promote children’s rights and the UNCRC in schools…
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Children’s Commissioner for Wales Community Ambassadors programme
This a Children’s Vomissioner for Wales programme where children and young people can get involved and volunteer as members of their local community group or special interest group…
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Hate speech and children’s rights podcast
This podcast series from UNICEF discusses hate speech and its impact on children’s rights…
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New website – Children’s Participation in Schools
The Children’s Participation in Schools Team has launched a website that offers information about the Children’s Participation in Schools project, which primary aim is to explore and examine teaching practices that embed young children’s participative rights in classrooms and schools…
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Care experience as a protected characteristic?
New Leicestershire Cares podcast considering whether being care experienced should be recognised in the Equality Act 2010 as a protected characteristic…
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Accessible leisure activities for disabled children and young people
The ‘VOCAL’ study is based on disabled children’s right to rest, leisure, play and recreation and to take part in cultural and artistic activities. Recently a new paper from this study has been published highlighting the fluctuations in well-being and disable children’s experiences in recreational activities…
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